Pomological Gossip. 543 



in our description in our volume for 1851. Specimens that 

 we presented before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 October 8th, were unanimously pronounced to be " one of 

 the best pears tested by the Fruit Committee." It is not 

 only a fine pear, but, under good culture, a very large one, 

 measuring from three to three and a half inches in diameter, 

 and weighing ten to twelve ounces. The tree is a fine 

 grower, produces abundantly, and comes into bearing early. 

 It will sustain the highest rank among the great number of 

 new pears. 



Scott's Seedling Strawberry. — No strawberry of recent 

 introduction has had a higher reputation among those who 

 know it than Scott's Seedling. It was raised by Mr. Scott of 

 Brighton, a market gardener, and has now been in his pos- 

 session four or five years, during which time he has been 

 extending its cultivation until he has five or six acres covered 

 with it, and, if his vines do well, will next year gather several 

 thousand boxes. Every one who has purchased the fruit in 

 Boston market has pronounced it one of the few really prime 

 strawberries we possess. It is a very peculiarly shaped ber- 

 ry, being nearly or quite two inches long, and about half that 

 in diameter at the base ; of a deep rich glossy crimson Qolor, 

 and a firm, yet very juicy, rich, and extremely high flavored 

 flesh ; its firmness being a great recommendation as a market 

 berry. Mr. Scott's soil is very light, yet this variety suc- 

 ceeds remarkably well, and produces, with him, a larger crop 

 than any other variety. It comes in just after all the early 

 sorts are gone. 



The Pennsylvania Strawberry. — This new variety is a 

 seedling of the Moyamensing, and was raised by Gerhard 

 Schmitz, of Philadelphia. Fruit large, broadly conical, dark 

 crimson ; seed crimson, and when shaded yellow, set in de- 

 pressions not very deep, with roundish internals ; flesh red j 

 flavor fine. It is a pistillate variety. Leaves large, deep 

 green, with crenate serratures. The Committee of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society awarded it the first premium 

 of $5, as the best new American seedling strawberry, of supe- 

 rior quality, after two years' trial. 



